When western medicine wasn’t able to treat her lingering fatigue and dizziness, Chi Nguyen decided to see a naturopath. But she left the consultation untreated, unhappy, and shaken.
“I came in with an open mind…[but] within just a few minutes, I was freaking out and wanted to leave as soon as I could,” she told Insight’s Kumi Taguchi.
Nguyen said the naturopath took a blood sample from her through a finger prick and looked at it on a microscope slide. He also put some blood samples into tubes for testing on-site.
“The handling of all of that was completely atrocious,” she explained. “No cleanliness, no hygiene, no aseptic technique.
“I was literally having thoughts of … I’d be lucky if I don’t get an STD from this clinic.”
After analysing Nguyen’s bloods, the naturopath began to explain her results. But Nguyen, who works as a pharmacist, knew something wasn’t quite right.